Comparing Sold prices with Asking prices

alexlyne

Is there a website that compares sold prices with the corresponding asking prices at the time?
It's a pain that the sold prices are always published months behind the sale date, by which time you've forgotten what was being asked.

I'm trying to get information together on prices in the area that we are trying to buy in... the seller of the property we are keen in seems to think that for the area, a 10% drop in asking price in the last 18 months is reasonable. I disagree. I'd like to look at sold prices, but also to look at asking prices, to see if the sale prices were much lower than the asking prices.

Do you understand what I mean?

Thanks
Alex

bob79

I have a very big folder on my computer in which I save the details of houses..... One of the annoying things when trying to compare with sold prices is that estate agents usually don't give the house number in the particulars though.

There is a very nice trick which works if the property was advertised on rightmove (due to rightmove not actually completely removing houses from its website).

If you just after the asking price, then the following will probably work (it does for me). Go to google and put in the street name and town name and also the phrase site:rightmove.co.uk. That should find a page containing the short particulars of the house (not all the particulars which is why I save those on my computer), including the last asking price. If you have property bee installed, then that still works and you can see the whole history as usual.
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Of course you will have to manually sift through the list of search results that google gives.

googler

"Do you understand what I mean?"

Good grief, YES. It's not a difficult concept.

"It's a pain that the sold prices are always published months behind the sale date, by which time you've forgotten what was being asked."

You should've been more diligent about recording them in the first place. However,

Depending on the size of the area you're looking at; look at Zoopla, nethouseprice or similar for a list of what's sold in that area. Go ask the agents in the area which of these they sold, and what they were asking for them. Failing that;

Go to the local library, pull the local newspapers from their archive and look for property adverts. Failing that;

Google the addresses to see if the details are still cached somwhere on the web (without the site:rightmove parameter mentioned in the previous post). They might be listed on sites outwith Rightmove. Failing that;

Google the addresses WITH the site parameter set to any or all of the local EA's websites; let's say Foxtons are active in the area - "site:foxtons.co.uk" or "site:foxtons.com". Failing that,

Err.... that's it.